Frederick Nolting

Frederick Nolting (24 August 1911-14 December 1989) was the US ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963, succeeding Elbridge Durbrow and preceding Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..

Biography
Frederick Nolting was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1911, and he served in the US Navy during World War II before joining the State Department in 1946. He served as a delegate to NATO before serving as President John F. Kennedy's ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963. In 1963, as US-South Vietnam relations deteriorated due to the Buddhist Crisis, he was recalled to the USA, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was sent to replace him. He became a faculty member at the University of Virginia, and he died in Charlottesville in 1989.